Yale Condensed Matter Theory Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1 PM on Wednesdays in Room 107, Mason Lab.

Spring 2000

• January 26
  Anthony Houghton, Brown University
  Quasiparticle thermal conductivity in the vortex state of the high temperature superconductors
  
  
• February 2
  Brad Marston, Brown University
  Using Supersymmetry and the Density-Matrix RG to Understand Disorder and Quantum Criticality
  
  
• February 9
  Roderich Moessner, Princeton University
  Frustrated Ising magnets in a transverse field: the interplay of degeneracy and quantum fluctuations
  
  
• February 16
  Yuval Gefen, Weizmann Institute (Note special time and place)
  1:30 PM, Sloane 52
  Transmission phase in mesoscopic systems: an approximate sign sum rule
  
  
• Thursday, February 17
  Jinwu Ye, University of Houston (Note special day, time, and place)
  1:30 PM, Sloane 52
  Composite fermions in high-T_c cuprates: application to longitudinal and transverse thermal conductivities
  
  
• February 23
  Rava da Silveira, MIT
  Rippling instability of a collapsing bubble
  
  
• March 8
  Dima Shepelyansky, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
  Quantum chaos and quantum computers
  
  
• Tuesday March 14
  Henrik Bruus, Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
  11 AM, Becton 3rd floor alcove
  From mesoscopic magnetism to the anomalous 0.7 conductance plateau
  
  
• March 15
  Bertrand Reulet, Universite Paris-Sud
  1:30 PM, Becton 408
  Measurements of Flux Dependent Screening in Aharonov-Bohm Rings
  
  
• March 29
  Marcus Fleck, MPI Stuttgart
  Electronic Structure of metallic stripes in the two-dimensional Hubbard model
  
  
• Thursday, March 30
  Ilya Gruzberg, ITP, Santa Barbara (Note special day, time, and place)
  1:30 PM, Sloane 52
  Localization and delocalization in dirty superconducting wires
  
  
• Monday, April 3
  Russel J. Donnelly, University of Oregon (Note special day, time, and place)
  1:00 PM, Mason 107
  Host: K. Sreenivasan
  Fluid dynamics at cryogenic temperatures
  
  
• Thursday April 6 (Note special day, time, and place)
  1:30 PM, Sloane 63
  J.C. Seamus Davis, Berkeley
  Exploring the Effects on High-Tc Superconductivity of Individual Ni and Zn impurity Atoms in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d
  
  
• April 26
  Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin
  Quantum-critical superconductivity in cuprates
  
  
• Friday April 28
  Revaz Ramazashvili, University of Illinois (Note special day, time, and place)
  2:00 PM, Sloane 63
  Level correlations in disordered superconducting grains
  
  
• May 3
  Richard Berkovits, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  Host: Y. Alhassid
  No metal-insulator transition for interacting spinless electrons in two dimensions
  
  
• May 10
  Nina Markovic, Delft University of Technology (Note special time and place)
  1:30 PM, Sloane 52
  Host: S. Barrett
  Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in 2D
  

Please contact the host or Subir Sachdev for more info or if you would like to meet a speaker.